The essence of Western science is simply careful observation coupled with critical thought; in other words, the disciplined use of our senses and our brains in tandem. Science is not an ideology but the distillation of human intellectual experience in our slow climb up the evolutionary ladder. (p. 159).

The back cover of this book is a frameable color photograph of a detail from Michelangelo's
Last Judgment on the wall of the Sistine Chapel.